How To Install gdesklets on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gdesklets on Debian 9.
What is gdesklets
gdesklets is:
gDesklets is an architecture for “desklets”, which are tiny applets sitting on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness.
You can populate your desktop with status meters, icon bars, weather sensors, news tickers… whatever you can imagine… Virtually anything is possible and may even be available some day.
This package includes a small number of applets.
There are three methods to install gdesklets on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gdesklets Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gdesklets using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gdesklets
Install gdesklets Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gdesklets using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gdesklets
Install gdesklets Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gdesklets using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gdesklets
How To Uninstall gdesklets on Debian 9
To uninstall only the gdesklets package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gdesklets
Uninstall gdesklets And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gdesklets and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gdesklets
Remove gdesklets Configurations and Data
To remove gdesklets configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gdesklets
Remove gdesklets configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gdesklets configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gdesklets
Dependencies
gdesklets have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libgtop-2.0-10
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- librsvg2-2
- python
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gdesklets package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
